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600 Technology (Applied sciences)

610 Medical sciences. Medicine

History of American Red Cross Nursing

Macmillan 1922

DDC: 610

“One phase of American nursing history— that of the organization and development of the nursing service of the American Red Cross— has been gathered in elaborate detail in. . . an official volume. . . The book follows the Red Cross nurses in the Spanish war, the world war, the foreign emergency relief program, the post-war developments in rural and public health nursing and educational work in which the Red Cross has played an active part.” Survey.
– Standard Catalog for Public Libraries: Science and Useful Arts (1931)

Practical Nursing; a Text-book for Nurses

Putnam 1914

DDC: 610

Describes “the procedures used in the general care of patients and the giving of treatments in a manner to facilitate class instruction- nevertheless, items of procedures, and procedures as a whole, which cannot well be shown in class are also described and special stress is made on details that will enhance a patient’s comfort.”
– Preface to fourth edition

Evolution of Modern Medicine

Yale University 1921

DDC: 610

Subtitle: “A series of lectures delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1923”.
Contents: Introduction; Greek medicine; Medieval medicine; Renaissance and the rise of anatomy and physiology; Rise and development of modern medicine; Rise of preventive medicine. Contains many excellent illustrations.
“Highly interesting and able summary, suited to layman and doctor alike.”
– Standard Catalog for Public Libraries: Science and Useful Arts (1931)

612 Human physiology

Senescence; The Last Half of Life

Appleton 1922

DDC: 612

Presents “the subjects of Old Age and Death from as many viewpoints as possible in order to show how the ignorant and the learned, the child, the adult, and the old, savage and civilized man, pagans and Christians, the ancient and the modern world, the representatives of various sciences, different individuals have viewed these problems, letting each class. . . speak for itself.”
– Foreword
“Rich in scholarship and personal experience, is a comprehensive review of the sum of human knowledge on this subject. . . All students of human nature will feel that this text is the gift of a mature mind to those who would struggle wisely to meet the problems of advancing age.”
– Standard Catalog for Public Libraries: Science and Useful Arts (1931)

The Human Mechanism

Ginn 1918

DDC: 612

Subtitle: “Its physiology and hygiene and the sanitation of its surrounding”.
“A standard work covering physiology, hygiene and sanitation.”
– Standard Catalog for Public Libraries: Science and Useful Arts (1931)

Engines of the Human Body

Lippincott 1919

DDC: 612

“An admirable book about human structure and physiology. It is the substance, revised and arranged to form a book, of one of those famous series of Christmas Lectures to popular audiences which the Royal Institution of Great Britain arranges to have given each year by British scientific men of high authority. All of us want to and ought to know as much as we can about our own bodily make-up and the way our bodies perform the necessary life-functions. This book is crammed full of interesting facts, and gives one a point of view about the human body which will be new to many readers.”
– Standard Catalog for Public Libraries: Science and Useful Arts (1931)

The Cost of Cleanness

Wiley 1908

DDC: 613

Subtitle: “Cleanness, the state of being clean, a sanitary necessity of the Twentieth Century whatever it may cost.”
Practical study of the relation between public and private cleanliness and the cost of uncleanliness. Contains suggestions for finding out what the actual cost of keeping clean is.
– – A.L.A.Catalog 1904-1911

Feeding the Family

Macmillan 1921

DDC: 613

Chapter headings are:
1. The Significance of Food
2. Care of the Digestive Mechanism
3. Food for the Adult Man
4. Food for the Adult Woman
5. Food for the Baby
6. Food for the Two-year-old Child
7. Food for Children Three and Four Years Old
8. Food for Children Five to Seven Years Old
9. Food for Children Eight to Twelve Years Old
10. Food in Adolescence and Youth
11. Food after Fifty
12. Food for the Family Group: Menus
13. Food for the Family Group: Cost of Food
14. Food for the Family Group: Food Plans and Dietaries
15. Food for the Sick and Convalescent
Appendix

The Science of Living; or, The Art of Keeping Well.

McClurg 1910

DDC: 613

Compendium in small compass of all the factors which may influence health—air, clothing, bathing, rest, sleep, worry, sanitation and nutrition. Its special value lies in its conciseness and in the table of food substances.
– – A.L.A. Catalog 1904-1911

DDC: 613.7

613.9 Human genetics. Eugenics

The Social Direction of Human Evolution

Appleton 1911

DDC: 613.9

Comprehensive, clear and very readable presentation of eugenics, based on the best authorities. Davenport’s Heredity in relation to eugenics (Holt, 1912, 298p., $2 n. 12-1394) is the most important work for students, containing results of recent research conducted by the author.
– – A.L.A. Catalog 1904-1911